I contacted my editor.
She told me
they have a (antiquated) system
and they don’t do anything special
for Amazon,
the bookseller responsible
for over 80% of my sales.
They refused to tweak my listings
to ensure the stories are in the right categories
and have the right tags.
I politely pushed back,
stating that this reduces
my chances of success to damn close to zero.
The reply was
this is our system.
We’re not changing it.
So I looped in my agent
and asked to escalate it.
I posted a query on the author loop.
I’m raising a freakin’ stink
because I have nothing to lose.
If my sales are low,
I don’t get paid
and I will ironically get fired
from the publisher causing my sales to be low.
You launched your product
because you believe in it.
Fight for its success.